Let the heavens sing

I am soooo far behind on my Christmas Stamping All Year Round.  This is one of the color challenges from a few weeks ago.  I saw the pattern paper from Tickled Pink I just used on my tulip card, and knew the colors would work for this card challenge.  YAY!  I didn't have to think much on this one....LOL!

Once I got the colors and main image, then my brain had to kick into gear to think of how to pull the card together.  I don't have any ocean colored embellishments or ribbon.  Hmmm!  I went with gold.  

I embossed the main image from the Gloria set (CTMH) with gold powder and then added prisma glitter to the angels wings and halo.

Next I wanted a sentiment that would be different than what I have been doing.  I used the sentiment from Christmas Heaven (CTMH) by embossing it, then cutting each line apart to arrange it on my card.  

Finally, I wanted to add more ocean color, so I used my swirl EK Success punch and stamped a border from Victorian Snowflake (CTMH) set in Versamark and embossed in gold again.  The final touch was to add gold brads to the border.  

Oh, I forgot to meniton I used D'Vine Swirl Cuttlebug embossing folder to create the background below the striped paper.  D'Vine sounded like it would go with an angel.  Don't ya think?  Hope you like it!  Now, back to my studio for more Christmas cards.

Happy Stamping!

On this day...

I had scrapbook club/crop at my house last night (Saturday) and we had fun creating.  Finally, I am caught up with this week's sketch challenge for Stampin' Christmas All Year Long.

Connie, you can quit asking me if I am caught up now!  Thank you!

This sketch is from challenge #9 (03-23-09) and my card is below.  I am not thrilled with how that one turned out, but sometimes I need to just go to the next one.  

I felt like embossing on both of the cards I made last night.  For the first one, I used clear embossing powder and then sponged ink (tulip, olive and vineyard berry) over the image to match the pattern paper.

Here is the sketch for challenge #10 (03-30-09).  I wanted to use non-traditional colors on this card.  I traded my friend Terese some cards for embossing powders.  I used the light blue powder and love the way this looks.  I have so much paper and one of my resolution's this year to use what I have.  So I grabbed paper from Level 2 packs I purchased already.  The pattern green paper is from Emporium and the pattern blue paper is from Stardust.

Happy Stamping!

Alleluia!

Today, I was thinking about what I should create when I came across my Gloria stamp set.  I was going to put it away when I saw this card base.  It already had the Evensong pattern paper and the cuttlebugged barn red and cranberry attached and I knew I had to stamp with the Gloria set I had in my hand.  

I remembered Marianne teaching us a technique with copic markers where you stamp the image on vellum and then color the back with markers.  I didn't have copic markers in these colors, so I used my CTMH markers to match the stained glass pattern paper from the Evensong Collection.  I ran the marker across, so I could put all four colors (sorbet, tulip, barn red and new england ivy) on the image.  I wanted it to have the rainbow of the colors in the background.  I really like how this turned out.   

All materials used are CTMH unless noted: Paper - Evensong Level 2, barn red cs, cranberry cs, sorbet cs, gold vellum, regular vellum (non-CTMH), colonial white cs; Stamp sets - Gloria, Romantic Backgrounds; Ink - black; Markers - sorbet, tulip, barn red, new england ivy; Embellishments - brass brads (non-CTMH), Cuttlebug D'vine Swirl, gold ribbon (non-CTMH)

Happy Stamping!